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1 After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you.
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Jesus said these things. Then, raising his eyes in prayer, he said: Father, it's time. Display the bright splendor of your Son So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor.
2 For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.
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You put him in charge of everything human So he might give real and eternal life to all in his charge.
3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
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And this is the real and eternal life: That they know you, The one and only true God, And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
4 I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
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I glorified you on earth By completing down to the last detail What you assigned me to do.
5 Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.
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And now, Father, glorify me with your very own splendor, The very splendor I had in your presence Before there was a world.
6 “I have revealed you to the ones you gave me from this world. They were always yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
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I spelled out your character in detail To the men and women you gave me. They were yours in the first place; Then you gave them to me, And they have now done what you said.
7 Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you,
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They know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, That everything you gave me is firsthand from you,
8 for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.
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For the message you gave me, I gave them; And they took it, and were convinced That I came from you. They believed that you sent me.
9 “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.
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I pray for them. I'm not praying for the God-rejecting world But for those you gave me, For they are yours by right.
10 All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory.
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Everything mine is yours, and yours mine, And my life is on display in them.
11 Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name; now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are.
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For I'm no longer going to be visible in the world; They'll continue in the world While I return to you. Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life That you conferred as a gift through me, So they can be one heart and mind
12 During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.
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As we are one heart and mind. As long as I was with them, I guarded them In the pursuit of the life you gave through me; I even posted a night watch. And not one of them got away, Except for the rebel bent on destruction (the exception that proved the rule of Scripture).
13 “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy.
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Now I'm returning to you. I'm saying these things in the world's hearing So my people can experience My joy completed in them.
14 I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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I gave them your word; The godless world hated them because of it, Because they didn't join the world's ways,
15 I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one.
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Just as I didn't join the world's ways. I'm not asking that you take them out of the world But that you guard them from the Evil One.
16 They do not belong to this world any more than I do.
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They are no more defined by the world Than I am defined by the world.
17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.
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Make them holy - consecrated - with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth.
18 Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.
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In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.
19 And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth.
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I'm consecrating myself for their sakes So they'll be truth-consecrated in their mission.
20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message.
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I'm praying not only for them But also for those who will believe in me Because of them and their witness about me.
21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.
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The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind - Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.
22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.
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The same glory you gave me, I gave them, So they'll be as unified and together as we are -
23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
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I in them and you in me. Then they'll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That you've sent me and loved them In the same way you've loved me.
24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!
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Father, I want those you gave me To be with me, right where I am, So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me, Having loved me Long before there ever was a world.
25 “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me.
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Righteous Father, the world has never known you, But I have known you, and these disciples know That you sent me on this mission.
26 I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”
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I have made your very being known to them - Who you are and what you do - And continue to make it known, So that your love for me Might be in them Exactly as I am in them.
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